Introducing Your Life Force

There are practices such as sun-gazing, and breatharianism (also known as Inedia), that, allegedly, allow people to live without food or water for indefinite periods of time. These claims are based on the belief that humans can extract “life energy” from sunlight, and air through alchemical processes.

This “life energy” is still overlooked by most modern scientists, despite recent findings providing substantial proof of its existence. At the same time, knowledge about it has been known for thousands of years by ancient cultures around the world.

Common names referring to this energy include Prana (Indian/Hinduism), Chi (Chinese/Daoism), Ki (Japanese), Ruach (Hebrew/Kabbalism), Ka (Ancient Egyptian) , Pneuma (Greek), Élan vital (European Vitalism), Natura Medica (Greek Hippocratic tradition), Mana (Oceanic-Polynesian), Wakan (Indigenous Sioux), Ni (Lakota Sioux), Maban (Australian Aboriginal) Tigle (Tibetan), and Ether (European Alchemical Traditions).

There are also modern terms used to describe this life energy. Karl Von Reichenbach, a notable German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist, and philosopher, coined the term “Odic Force” in 1839. Years later, revolutionary psycho-biologist Wilhelm Reich’s, discovered a similar force which he called “Orgone”.

Reich went as far as building Orgone accumulators that helped people improve their health. His project was shut down in 1947, by no other than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 1956 Reich was charged with contempt, and sent to prison. His publications were burnt by order of the court. He was found dead in his cell a few days before his release date. The reason given for his death was a “heart attack”. (1)

Mainstream opinion remains skeptic on all these claims. Most people would regard these findings as pseudoscience. At the same time, there is enough proof to wonder, is there something we are missing?

How real is this life energy? Can we control it?

We might find some answers, by observing some impossible feats from people around the world. From Qi-Gong masters like Zhou Hong, to endurance artists like Wim Hof and David Blaine.

Online you can easily find accounts of people that seem to have super natural powers, or control over some super natural force. The easiest videos to find show people producing and directing electricity, heat, and incredible power, through their bare hands. Other videos, such as those by Wim Hof and his students, show our human ability to sustain incredibly low temperatures, and high altitudes, with a few weeks of simple training.

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